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So, again, i think there's a little bit of pr play here in that indictment, but obviously, a lot of serious charges are there and need to be rebutted and i think probably can be rebutted at the end of the day at trial. jacqui: to your point. jack smith, this indictment was unusual and indictments are usually pretty bland. this had a lot of evidence in it from their point of view, which was really looks like an effort to message to the american people, rather than to the defendant, but to your point about the president's ability to declassify. one of those pieces of evidence that jack smith lay...

Difference here between why they're pursuing charges against trump and not against pence. >> and we have the documents that were taken by vice-president and senator joe biden. remember, president trump is in a unique possession because he was actually the president and made him the commander-in-chief that had certain constitutional authorities that neither mike pence nor joe biden when he was president had and yet again, they don't seem to be the ones that they were targeting, donald trump first and foremost, only when people raised questions about the other individuals did the department of j...

>> because the justice department is not unsealed this dooumt, we're relying on good reporting to understand what's at play here. so in it this audio recording, which we reported on last week, the former president is in a meeting at his golf club. in attendance are two aids and two people working on an auto biography for mark meadows. when he says the things i'm about to read, he know he's being recorded. he's very frustrated at this time with an article that came out about mark milley. and he says in part, quote, he said i wanted to attack iran. isn't that amazing? i have a pile of papers. th...

Because even though he doesn't have to go through a process, he does have to decide that it's been done. did he tell anyone? >> yes, yeah. >> and can you prove it? >> yeah. >> did he declassify this document that we're referring to? >> we're not going to try the case leak by leak. what i can tell you is the leaks that come out, some of them are abjectly false. >> be thank you is very significant. >> it sure is. >> if you are saying he declassified the documents you should be able to say whether this document had been declassified. >> i'm not trying my case for cnn. >> so you won't say? >> of c...

Clear. if you have the authority to declassify, you are not acquitted to any bureaucratic process. >> could you tell by the way? >> it exactly like the -- >> hoodie? tell >> me finish the thought so your viewers understand where i'm going. if you have a pardon, it might be something where you go through the pardon attorney or the attorney general makes a recommendation. the bureaucratic process. that is not the constitutional part of it. you have the authority as president to do it. so if somebody walks in and says part injections, and he was treated horribly by racists, you can pardon him wit...